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![Shelter and Generation Rent demand rent controls in new Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The activists who were so influential in steering the shape of the Renters Reform Bill under the old Conservative government are...
18 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent and trade union turn on “criminal landlords”](/upload/images/shutterstock_1723862413(2).jpg)
Activist group Generation Rent has produced a report in tandem with a trades union, focusing on key worker tenants - and...
12 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand immediate rent controls from Starmer government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
In a blog released within minutes of Sir Kier Starmer becoming Prime Minister, activist group Generation Rent calls for rent controls. It...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb short lets banned by 2028 - could it happen here too?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
The mayor of Barcelona has pledged to eliminate Airbnb-style short lets in the city within five years. Socialist Jaume Collboni claims he...
24 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists send “warning” letter to Major Party Leaders](/upload/images/shutterstock_2288021991.jpg)
A letter from a coalition of pro-tenant groups has been sent to the leaders of the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Reform...
21 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Pro-tenant activists slam Labour’s rental reform plans](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172(1).jpg)
Labour’s manifesto commitment to empower renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases has been slammed because it “would leave millions trapped in...
17 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tenants Disadvantaged in Elections Compared to Landlords - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
One of the more unexpected claims from Generation Rent activists is that when it comes to democracy, tenants are disadvantaged compared...
17 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Radical EPC Targets and Rent Controls are latest party pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiency_Savings-400x310.png)
Another raft of General Election pledges have been made to transform the private rental sector - this time from the Green...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists use homelessness issue to demand new Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/shutterstock_1016671648(1).jpg)
The issue of homelessness and cost of temporary accommodation are being cited as reasons for a new version of the Renters...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![They Think It’s All Over - renter activists unhappy about Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
In theory the Renters Reform Bill could become law if government and opposition agree to prioritise it in the few remaining...
23 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Landlords Selling Up? Generation Rent says it makes no difference!](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
The Generation Rent group of activists says it doesn’t matter if landlords sell up and leave the private rental sector. Appearing to...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Huge corporate landlord targeted by protesting activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
Grainger, the Stock Market listed corporate landlord, has been targeted by protesters over rent levels. A protest outside Grainger’s London HQ marks...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Paul Shamplina demands government set date for Section 21 abolition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Landlord Action founder Paul Shamplina says the government must set a date for Section 21 abolition to give all sides of...
26 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill U-turn by tenant activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The coalition of 20-plus groups which have previously spoken enthusiastically about the Renters Reform Bill has now changed its mind. On April...
25 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent activists spurn Reform Bill olive branch from NRLA](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association has taken the unusual step of extending an olive branch to the activists who run the...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists line up to criticise Renters Reform Bill amendments](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The Renters Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons today with activist groups critical of amendments put forward to reach...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Council offering landlords “training to help them improve”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
Landlords have only until Friday to give their views on a controversial licensing consultation from a council known for its aggressive...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists claim Renters Reform Bill change will worsen Domestic Abuse](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HouseInspection_400x310.png)
Generation Rent claims a proposed government amendment to the Renters Reform Bill may ‘trap’ victims of domestic abuse. Generation Rent - which...
19 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Notice for Gove! - activists mark Section 21 anniversary](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Section21-400x310.png)
A small number of activists have tried to erect a four metre high mock eviction notice on one of Housing Secretary...
16 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![NRLA and Generation Rent daggers drawn over controversial report](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310%20(1).png)
Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...
09 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists trying to push Labour into imposing rent controls](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Activists are beginning to pile pressure on London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, claiming the public will be disappointed if he toes...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove bringing Renters Reform Bill back to Commons in mid-April](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The government has committed to returning the amended Renters Reform Bill to the House of Commons in mid-April. MPs return from their...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent claims rent control proposal still not tough enough](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NB%20-%20M%26P%20March%20blog%201%20-%20No%20budget%20boost%20from%20the%20Chancellor%20but%20it's%20not%20all%20doom%20and%20gloom.jpg)
The controversial proposal for permanent rent controls in Scotland, published just ahead of the Easter holiday, doesn’t go far enough for...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![MPs want Local Housing Allowance and other benefits updated annually](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
An all-party House of Commons committee is calling on Local Housing Allowance to be updated automatically and annually. LHA rates have been...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Eco-activists slam landlords selling up because of rent controls](/upload/images/shutterstock_1909455316(1).jpg)
Green Party activists responsible for rent controls on Scotland have now slammed landlords who claim the number of rented homes is...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tax Grab from landlords closely resembles Generation Rent advice](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A controversial proposal for a £300m tax grab on landlords appears to closely follow a policy suggestion put forward by activists...
04 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill compromise 'near' but activists re-ignite arguments](/upload/images/shutterstock_1723539217(2).jpg)
Generation Rent has issued an angry statement about amendments to the Renters Reform Bill - just as one MP says agreement...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb reveals income and demographics of landlord hosts](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
Airbnb has released new figures showing that the typical host landlord makes a modest £5,500 a year by sharing their space...
22 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists slam Gove for being too soft on short let landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to restrict Airbnb-style short lets do not go far enough, a group of activists has said. Yesterday...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent control activists play the mental health card](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Stressed(F)Tenant-400x310.png)
A survey by an activist group suggests that one in three tenants claim that their private renting conditions are impacting their...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![“Seize bad landlords' properties” Generation Rent demands](/upload/images/shutterstock_1929449678.jpg)
Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...
16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent activists link Brownfield Homes with Section 21](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Generation Rent has given a qualified thumbs up to Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s ideas for homes on brownfield land. This week Gove...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists in new bid to make Renters Reform Bill tougher on landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The Renters Reform Coalition - a group of organisations including Shelter and Generation Rent - has again written to Housing Secretary...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activists make string of demands about damp and mould](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent activist group has called for a series of reforms about damp and mould. It wants the reinstatement of energy...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Budget - landlords have three weeks to give Hunt advice](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
HM Treasury has opened its representations portal, meaning landlords - and anyone else - can submit their ideas for the next...
05 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activist group makes formal public apology to landlords' chief](/upload/images/shutterstock_200250743.jpg)
The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental activists claim public support for radical five point 2024 wish list](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Landlords intimidate tenants into not reporting faults, says Generation Rent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Christmas goodwill towards landlords seems in short supply from activist group Generation Rent. It has this week issued a statement saying the...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists say they know rent levels two years from now](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hunt’s dramatic Local Housing Allowance move not enough for activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![New App allows activists to complain about Airbnb-style short lets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
A tenants’ union has developed an app which it claims makes it easy to complain about short lets. Living Rent - a...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Surprise claim as activists say Section 21 makes tenants age more rapidly](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly. Generation Rent claims there is a study by...
10 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Nationalise private rental homes, demands new manifesto](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sunak has “let landlords off the hook” over EPC reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-3-400x310.png)
There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove ignores Renters Reform Bill at key conference speech](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Rental activists are up in arms because Housing Secretary Michael Gove failed to mention the Renters Reform Bill during his keynote...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hardline activists claim over 600,000 evictions using Section 21](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent to run Rights Awareness Week next month](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Activists in the Generation Rent group are running what they call Renters’ Rights Awareness Week in the second half of October. “Whether...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent overheats about Sunak’s “cruel” EPC Backtrack](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
While many sections of the property industry welcome the change of tone in Rishi Sunak’s approach to green issues, one group...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Older tenants distraught at Renters Reform Bill delay - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
A charity claims that apparent delays to the Renters Reform Bill, which has yet to get a Second Reading in the...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent hopping mad over ‘missing’ Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Activists in the Generation Rent campaign are complaining that the Renters Reform Bill hasn’t been placed ahead of other Parliamentary business...
15 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent says Bank of England governor is fellow-traveller](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent group of activists says Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is on their side about Section 21 evictions. Bailey...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent Petition calls for holiday lets to be licensed by councils](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets. The campaign claims...
01 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent wants special deal for tenants when landlords default](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists use Shelter campaign to renew Section 21 call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Generation Rent says Shelter has it right when it complains about evictions in the private rental sector. Earlier this week Shelter claimed...
24 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![New legal warning - Renters Reform Bill will hit landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent demands EPC change to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Activist group Generation Rent is now demanding a change to the Renters Reform Bill to help tenants with energy bills. The group...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists complain to Rishi Sunak over Renters Reform Bill delays](/upload/images/shutterstock_1717996879.jpg)
The Renters Reform Coalition - an umbrella body which includes direct action groups Acorn and the Renters Rights London - has ...
27 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![“Shocking discrimination” by many landlords, claim activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Stormy%20weather%20for%20homebuyers%20Introducer%20today%20team%20LandlordNews.png)
New research has uncovered what the organisations behind it call “shocking discrimination towards migrant communities” while they try to find places...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour activists' call to buy 500,000 private rental properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent activists outline their latest demands](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172.jpg)
Activist group Generation Rent - which has demanded rent freezes, eviction bans and cash hand-outs to help tenants move now wants...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Extinction Rebellion jumps on housing protest bandwagon](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172.jpg)
After genteel protests from the Generation Rent ginger group and more pro-active protests from the Acorn group of rental activists, tomorrow...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour MP wants action against “Ill-intentioned...bad faith” landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
A Labour MP has spoken of loopholes in the Renters Reform Bill - a narrative now being pursued by some activists...
21 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists want curbs on rent rises from “cashing in” landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists launch winter campaign of action against landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
A group of rental activists in London claims that over 10,000 private rented homes in the borough of Brent have a...
14 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists U-turn on Renters Reform Bill?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LettingAgent-400x310.png)
Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...
13 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists take aim at holiday home owners in tourist areas](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172.jpg)
The Generation Rent activist group claims holiday homes are eroding the supply of available properties in key tourist areas. It claims 80...
06 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists back Labour Mayor’s demand for power to seize homes](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/House-in-Hand-400x310.jpg)
The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists reveal new anti-landlord campaign theme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove puts activists in pole position at launch of Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shelter and radical activists hint at further demands for reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists claim “shocking discrimination” towards ethnic minority tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BTR-400x310.png)
Research conducted by activist group Generation Rent is claiming “shocking discrimination towards minority ethnic communities while navigating the private rental market.” The...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists want more anti-landlord measures even before Bill is published](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
Activists are demanding that the government stop landlords circumnavigating an imminent eviction ban by hiking rents so tenants leave anyway. The London...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists join Labour Mayor in criticism of private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists want tougher Labour-style clampdown on Airbnb landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/airbnb400x310.jpg)
The Generation Rent activist group says the government’s proposed clampdown on short let landlords does not go far enough. At the end...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenant activists slam government over EPC ‘missed opportunity’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent campaign has criticised the current government for failing to increase energy efficiency standards in the private rental sector. A...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Housing Minister says Tory policies NOT driving out landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Housing minister Rachel Maclean is quoted as saying her government’s policies are NOT driving landlords out of the private rental sector. The...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent says tenants afraid to report damp and mould](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Housing activists link with Extinction Rebellion to protest today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
Campaigners in a group called Housing Rebellion are to meet in Central London today and make what they call “a few...
14 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists to lobby MPs on rental reform in ‘day of action’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour chiefs say landlords are wealthy so rents should be frozen](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze1-400x310.png)
A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...
24 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sweeping controls on rents and Airbnbs - could they happen here?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/airbnb400x310.jpg)
The Portuguese government has announced sweeping measures, mostly against landlords, which some activists want introduced in the UK too. Portuguese Prime Minister...
20 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists want landlords to be sued for damages by tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/Mould-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent group of activists is promoting a petition calling for private landlords to pay damages to tenants in some...
06 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents push landlords into hiking rents, claim activists](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Activist groups say landlords are being pressured by their letting agents into increasing rents. Generation Rent, led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, and...
29 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Baroness accuses landlords of having tenants over a barrel](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed. Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...
21 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![One in nine private rental homes are damp, claim activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group says the latest English Housing Survey shows that 23 per cent of private rented homes fail...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists turn on “derisory” Shelter management](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Tenant activists have turned on the bosses of Shelter - just as the charity wants to maximise income from its annual Christmas...
15 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gove may make planning consent compulsory for holiday lets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/holidayhomes400x310.jpg)
The government is considering making home owners apply for planning consent if they wish to use a property for holiday lets. The...
02 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Reform Activists turn on each other in factional feud](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Stressed(F)Tenant-400x310.png)
Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent slams latest delay in Rental Reform laws](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists want Sunak pledge that Section 21 will be scrapped](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Rishi%20Sunak%2003_400x310.png)
Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists welcome 'friend' Michael Gove into housing hot seat](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has given a warm welcome to the return of Michael Gove...
26 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent freeze in UK can be template for action across Europe - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentFreeze-400x310.png)
The so-called emergency rent freeze and eviction ban in Scotland “can serve as a Europe-wide template for protecting tenants rights” according...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![What now for activists’ lobby campaign against MPs?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/UKPolitics_Parliament-400x310.png)
The government’s latest U-turn on Section 21 evictions powers - which it now says WILL be abolished, following earlier leaks that...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Angry activists accuse Truss of Section 21 betrayal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...
12 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Almost total rent freeze STILL doesn’t go far enough for activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentFreeze-400x310.png)
A rent freeze in Scotland - which has been condemned by many experts in the private rental sector and by housing...
06 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Too many Airbnbs? Councils should control numbers, say activists](/upload/images/library/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Housing campaigners want the government to give English councils planning power to refuse Airbnbs Action on Short-Term Lets, a campaign group, has...
20 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists to “tell renters their rights” next month](/upload/images/library/LoudSpeaker-1-400x310.jpg)
Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...
20 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Some Rent Freeze and Eviction Ban activists pause campaigning](/upload/images/library/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
Both Shelter and Generation Rent have paused their campaigning on social media for the duration of national mourning for The Queen. A...